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Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 19:20:48 UTC No. 197415
What if UFC had heightclasses instead of weightclasses?
Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 19:31:57 UTC No. 197416
I've always said this should be the cade, every 4 inches is a new class and you can keep the same division spread
Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 20:07:22 UTC No. 197418
>>197415
All combat sports should be open competition with no classes of any kind.
Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 20:13:49 UTC No. 197419
>>197418
But what about manlets?
Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 20:48:26 UTC No. 197423
>>197419
Well not for nothing but why do they think they have a right to be professionals in a sport if they're not athletically gifted enough
Other sports don't have a professional manlet division
If you want to play basketball or football or some shit, be a big person or get so good that you can be 5'6" and still keep up
Sports fans want to see the best of the best, not the jr.s
Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 20:57:14 UTC No. 197425
>>197419
If manlets can become top division mainstays in sumo, they can manage in any other sport. Go and tell Midorifuji he shouldn't be allowed to fight the big boys.
Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 21:13:36 UTC No. 197426
Height and reach are a huge factor when it comes to striking, being shorter allows for better grappling.
But yeah, Suga Sean is basically on PED's being that fucking tall in his weight class. Nobody can get close.
Anonymous at Sun, 12 May 2024 21:17:24 UTC No. 197427
>>197423
I get your point but I wouldn't want to miss out on Demetrious or Cejudo
Anonymous at Mon, 13 May 2024 09:24:04 UTC No. 197476
>>197423
now who are you going to put on your undercard
Anonymous at Mon, 13 May 2024 13:23:25 UTC No. 197484
>>197425
>>197415
I think it would promote bloatmaxxing too much, fatties are boring to watch
Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 20:59:18 UTC No. 198072
>>197415
Are O'malley's shoulders uneven or is it just me? Has he always been like that?
Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 21:54:20 UTC No. 198084
>>198072
they're narrow and uneven
Anonymous at Sat, 18 May 2024 15:20:40 UTC No. 198148
>>198059
I guess you could look at the old ufcs, like the first 10, when everything was absolute, and see what the weight advantage to win ratio was like. But the data is so old its hard to compare to modern day.
Anonymous at Sat, 18 May 2024 20:55:56 UTC No. 198185
>>198059
>>198148
Oh well, I guess someone will have to run an open-weight MMA tournament for a few years and see what happens.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 01:51:14 UTC No. 198198
>>197415
So thankful i have wide shoulders
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 01:54:45 UTC No. 198199
Dc is only shorter because he has no neck which is an advantage in all combat sports. Look at his waste line and shoulder height he is 6’2 proportions with no neck and a short round head. Put omalleys neck and head and he’s 6-2
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 03:09:15 UTC No. 198202
>>198185
No. I could use modern heavyweight fights.
Brock lesnar had a 45 lb advantage on randy.
igor vovchanchyn vs paul varelans showed even a 123 lb weight advantage isn't an absolute win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNw
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 21:28:24 UTC No. 198286
>>197423
That is the beauty of combat sports though. Because in team sports weight classes are impractical we have a place to put athletic midgets.
Anonymous at Sun, 19 May 2024 23:43:41 UTC No. 198292
>>197419
They can compete. Manlets have gotten way too cocky lately. They're like women who thinks they can actually fight a grown man. All thanks to this UFC bullshit.
Anonymous at Sun, 26 May 2024 03:08:30 UTC No. 198835
>>197476
FUCK undercards. Elimination tournament. One big night. No matter HOW fucking long it takes. Don't have the stamina to watch the whole thing? Fuck you. You don't DESERVE to be in the presence of warriors.
Anonymous at Sun, 26 May 2024 04:49:31 UTC No. 198842
>>198835
I'm inclined to agree with that
preliminaries on day 1, 8 man bracket day 2
Anonymous at Wed, 29 May 2024 07:56:34 UTC No. 199203
>>197419
They would finally learn
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:14:18 UTC No. 204771
>>197415
Ok
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:04:33 UTC No. 204782
>>197423
The reason team sports don't have weight classes is because it is a logistical head ache. For individual sports it is possible. Also heavy weight MMA fighters are typically low skill because the best heavy weight athletes have other options as you mentioned whereas midgets can only compete in combat sports so we get to see the absolute best of their weight class. Remember the ultimate casual favorite was Connor Mcgregor not some 250 lber.
Anonymous at Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:44:07 UTC No. 204815
>>197423
Funny how short Sumo's dominate a lot of taller good for nothing trash rikishi.
Anonymous at Tue, 23 Jul 2024 21:32:56 UTC No. 204920
>>197415
The whole sport would be full of fat blobs like heavyweight already is
Anonymous at Tue, 23 Jul 2024 21:35:32 UTC No. 204922
>>198835
>cue the injury retirements
As based as they were, tournaments were full of random bullshit ruining the competition
Anonymous at Tue, 23 Jul 2024 21:42:32 UTC No. 204923
>>204815
Best modern Sumo is 6'3" or so
Anonymous at Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:33:00 UTC No. 204980
>>198835
Oh yeah I totally want to watch Royce vs Shamrock 2 again. No time limits, 33 minutes of lay and pray. true warriors
Fucking cringey shithead
Anonymous at Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:42:41 UTC No. 204981
>>204922
I think most people who romanticize the tournament structure never really experienced a few live. They don't have the same investment because the fighters aren't current, so there's less disappointment when all of the sudden a bout change happens because X fighter can't continue for whatever reason despite winning.
Anonymous at Sat, 27 Jul 2024 17:24:10 UTC No. 205290
>>204923
No, it's 6ft8
Anonymous at Tue, 3 Sep 2024 19:37:09 UTC No. 209796
>>197415
Weight classes are merely height classes in disguise
Someone who's 5'6 won't be as athletic at 300lbs as someone who's 6'6
And it goes both ways
Someone who's 6'6 won't be as athletic at 150lbs as someone who's 5'6
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Sep 2024 13:40:14 UTC No. 209925
>>197415
Pretty grim that a lanky dyed hair wigger schuab o'cuckly is champ
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Sep 2024 15:43:15 UTC No. 209937
Why are some people able to successfully start a fight in the wrong and potentially win it? Those with bad intentions.
I'm always confident and ready to fight when I know I hold the moral ground. However if I feel that perhaps I started something I tend to maybe want to back out of a fight.
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Sep 2024 00:10:33 UTC No. 210953
>>197415
I have said this for decades.
Weight is stupid when you're allowed to use more than your fists.
Fighters should be classified based on size. Within a certain height, you are allowed to have a certain reach, leg length, weight, and size. And vice versa. We want fighters of similar size, not just weight, to fight one another.
An "open" heavyweight division with no upper limit is also retarded because it just ends up being taken over by the largest fighters who just end up being fat.
Jack Dempsey was a heavy weight. Mohammed Ali was a heavyweight. Think about that. Then today? You have Tyson fury, Klitschko brothers...
Compare fighters by size. Volume. You must be within such and such a volume, and any of your attributes cannot exceed certain particular limitations, and then it'll be fair.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:38:18 UTC No. 211138
>>210953
How would you personally want it calculated and set up?
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:39:59 UTC No. 211182
>>205290
Hakuho is 6'4"
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:07:58 UTC No. 211200
>>211182
Hakuho isn't active, he's talking about Hokuseiho who also isn't active because he got caught glueing his stabelmate's wallets closed and putting his fingers in their butts or something.
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:21:03 UTC No. 211201
>>210953
I think that's too much of a hassle to implement. Especially when height doesn't seem to impact fights alot unless it's a massive height difference.
If height was that big of an advantage most ufc fighters would be tall and skinny, since it'd be more advantageous to be a 6'3 155er than a 5'10 155er. But that's not the case, because taller fighters are worse wrestlers.
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:26:24 UTC No. 211203
>>211200
I heard he was fingering their wallets and gluing their buttholes shut
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:28:08 UTC No. 211204
>>211203
Japanese can be a mysterious language. There may have been no overt mentions of either buttholes or wallets, merely an implication of fingering and gluing.
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:47:31 UTC No. 211290
>>197415
UFC is a shit promotion that hates fun. Next question.